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UniverseHackerlast Thursday at 6:13 PM1 replyview on HN

These people are academics, their entire career and ability to get continued funding depends on getting personal credit for their work. That is entirely different from working for a private company.


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bonsai_spoollast Thursday at 10:48 PM

> These people are academics, their entire career and ability to get continued funding

The people I'm referring to at Google et al. are also academics.

Graduate students, and even post-doctoral researchers, are not the ones cited for breakthroughs from a laboratory.

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